new orders and emailing invoices

good day,
all of my new orders are coming in incomplete and are set to "hide". i have to manualy go into each order change its status to get an email. and for some reason a new order was placed and now the email function is not working. please i need help. thank you.

Thank you, the only thing that was NOT selected was use SSL. everything else was setup the same way you had asked. This JUST started to happen and this would be on order 21, the previous orders came in incomplete, but once i changed their status it automatically sent out an invoice.
any other config i need to do?